I'm sorry if this is a simple question, but I would like some feedback from paladins that have completed multiple 10 man hardmodes and see their input on continuing to spec LoD.

My guild is a 10-man strict guild progressing into hardmodes, and I only find LoD useful on certain few fights (Magmaw, Cho'gall) in normal mode. However I only have experience with Halfus heroic, so I have no idea whether LoD becomes more useful, or more useless, in other hardmodes.

A little change in current discussion.

If haste is not anymore a good stat for ret paladins, is still worth it to keep a "soft cap" for it to get a 3sec CD on CS? Im asking this just because I saw that on the guide at the beginning.

I've been reading here and there and I saw that Crit+Master is way long better than Haste. But, if that's wrong info, I was thinking about:

Str (as much as you can)
Hit (to cap)
Exp (to cap)
Haste (to "cap" = 3s CD on CS, but I'd add with the effect of Judgements of the Pure. If haste definitely is worst than Crit, I won't worry about it at all of course, and reforge out of it into something else [like mastery if Im already Hit/Exp capped])
Mastery
Crit

Im not sure, but I think that a 2.0 ratio Mastery over Crit could work.

what do you guys think about the statvalue from haste vs mastery after the recent patch?

Kavan will the new alchemy trinkets be added to the next version?

is there any way u could include something to put the stats on the random items?

Today I´ve made some testings at the dummie and I found a problem in my rotation:
Sometimes I have to chose either to go for the AiS Bug and let the imp SS buff to fall off or to cast another SS to keep the buff up but losing the free AiS.

Has anyone an idea which choice might be the better one?

that was it. thanks a ton! i would have probably never thought of that.

To be perfectly honest, as you say, aside from the haste soft-cap we don't really have much to aim for. There is no stat that we can really stack hard an continue to see a massive benefit.

The reduced cast time haste gives even after the soft cap is ofc nice, and continues to be guaranteed throughput, but then again that depends on how hard your spamming your casts and if your sticking to the mentality of ABC. For some fights, pre-emptive healing and smart decisions can often trump what bonus to a reduced cast time you would have.. others however you'll need to pick people up fast on several occasions

Crit is crit, wonderful for a bunch of things but the RNG factor weighs down it's importance slightly

Mastery is again, mastery.. sublime at times, poor at others, susceptible to RNG and ultimately less useful the better your raid is at avoiding damage, if other healers are sniping heals, mastery becomes a poor choice also.

So what the hell to make of all this, not a lot really.. we can't stack a stat as they all outperform each other in different scenarios, the only option then is to find a right balance for yourself, regarding your raid and current encounter. This is limited by the gear you have at your disposal, but I've collected a couple of differing sets to cope with encounters and reforge often. (Finding my high-mastery set does wonderful things when linked with the right encounter.)

We don't get the easy job, we have to work at our class, and our priorities, this isn't Wotlk anymore, one size does not fit all, what worked for someone else may not work for you.

Regarding dark arts there is absolutely no point speccing into it indeed seeing we are not using the felpuppy nor the imp now. I specced 3/3 demonic embrace and 1/2 fel synergy as that's the most usefull in regards of survivability.

Furthermore I personally prefer 2/2 in jinx instead of grabbing curse of exhaustion.

You could also move one of the above points in soulburn: soc if you like that.

Soulfire I assume is on the list to use everytime soulburn is off cd and instant cast, assuming you got shards left.

Simcraft's been updated with recent observations of the succubus scaling with crit the same way other pets do. Hence you use the succubus for demo and aff and use glyph of lash of pain.

It's showing a dps decrease because you are not at the spell hit cap. You need 1332 hit rating (13%) + 2/3 precision to be spell hit capped at 17%. If you're looking at your character sheet, it's already factoring in the +4% from talents, so don't do it yourself. Also, make sure to look for spell hit under the Spells tab, and not the Melee tab on your character sheet.

I double checked this by looking at your armory and also running korner's reforging program (Complete Rogue Reforger tool). Unless you've changed a lot since you last logged, you only have 1128 hit rating at the moment, so you are short of the spell hit cap.

Just a side note too, if you did in fact have extra hit (which you don't), it should be reforged to mastery where possible before haste, unless that is not an option.

At the moment, you need to reforge your shoulders & cloak from crit to hit AND your belt and boots from haste to hit to be right under the spell hit cap and optimally reforged.